CTO | Making healthcare accessible at scale

Wellis Health; Randstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership over technology and product

Equity opportunities

Direct collaboration with founders

Job summary

Wellis Health is seeking a technical leader to build their engineering organization and implement AI strategies. This MT-level position involves designing scalable architecture and collaborating directly with founders to drive growth.

The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, experience in hypergrowth environments, and the ability to mentor teams effectively. You will take ownership of technology and product, ensuring alignment with business objectives while fostering an innovative culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in building an engineering organization from the ground up.
• Technical strength to make architectural decisions.
• Ability to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, cloud-native architecture for European growth.
• Grow the engineering team and establish effective ways of working.
• Implement AI applications that deliver value across the organization.
• Translate technical decisions into business impact.

Skills

Building engineering organizations

Technical architecture

AI implementation

Team mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Wellis is a profitable, fast-growing digital health & wellness company operating in the Netherlands and Belgium, with a clear path towards European expansion. We guide our customers from first question to front door. Our product combines an online platform with physical fulfilment.

Think of the complexity of a logistics company, with the responsibility of medical services on top. We're approaching 100 people, the commercial engine is running, and the ambition is clear: technology needs to become a growth accelerator rather than a bottleneck.

The situation

The current platform was largely built by external parties. There is a small internal development team, two product managers who recently joined, and no documented architecture. AI applications have barely gotten off the ground. The founders have a clear vision of where this company is heading. What's missing is the technical leader who can translate that vision into a foundation capable of supporting European growth and who knows on day one what that foundation needs to look like.

Laying the foundation

You assess what's there and decide what stays, gets refactored, or gets rebuilt. You design a scalable, cloud‑native architecture capable of supporting European growth including the physical fulfilment layer that is part of our product. You define technical standards, engineering processes, and security principles. You take ownership of IT operations: identity management, device management, and SaaS governance. GDPR and compliance are not a project — they are your responsibility as part of how you build.

Building the team

You grow the engineering organisation from a small core to a mature team. You attract the right people, mentor them, and make them work well together. You establish ways of working that allow teams to deliver autonomously. You start lean, scale in a structured way, and know exactly which profiles you need and when in order to build speed.

Making Wellis AI‑native

AI is not a project or initiative. It is the default way of working. You implement applications that deliver direct value: personalisation, automation, decision support. You bring the rest of the organisation along and make AI tangible and usable for everyone, not just engineers.

Strategic partner to the founders

You stand next to the founders and think like an entrepreneur. You translate technical decisions into business impact and vice versa.

You turn technology into a growth accelerator. You contribute to the long‑term vision of the company — and you are someone who challenges the founders, not just confirms them.

What you bring

• You have built an engineering organisation before, not managed one, but built one.
• You know what scale looks like from the inside of a leading tech or healthtech company.
• You know how hypergrowth feels, what mistakes you make in it, and what you would do differently the second time.
• You are technically strong enough to sit with developers and make the right architectural calls.
• You walk into an organisation, make assumptions fast, and lay down a concrete structure — without needing all the answers first.
• AI is your default toolset, not your future ambition.
• You communicate clearly with non‑technical stakeholders.
• You think like a founder: you take ownership and don't wait for permission.

This role is not for you if

• You haven't been close to technical work in the last two years.
• You prefer presenting strategy over diving into the details with your team.
• You need a large existing team to operate effectively.
• You give advice where a decision is being asked for.
• You come from a corporate environment and want to stay there. Your organisation was 15 people rather than 150.

What you get

• An MT‑level position at a profitable, fast‑growing company.
• Combined ownership over technology and product.
• Direct collaboration with the founders.
• The freedom to build it your way.
• Serious equity for the right candidate.